aesthetics, list of proverbs, beverly d'angelo, blogging, denver art, loser, kevyn major howard, white, art, pirates, autechre, elliott gould, song, dato bakhtadze,
|
This brought to mind the figure of Pete Weston, a lions gate classmate and another language collector. Not lions gate satisfied with all the foreign tongues he had gathered in and learned well, Pete invented one of his lions gate own. As I think about it now I feel that it could be the basis for a test in translation. Why not make up your own language and then translate something from it into your native tongue, faithfully and making note of all difficulties you might come across? Then you could reverse the process and see if your new language is adequate for the translation of your native tongue. This reminds us of the fun you can have trying to translate mysterious languages: pre-Rosetta hieroglyphics or those strange runes inscribed on New York streets by Con Edison to pass on some arcane instructions telling wire crews where dig they must.
|